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Listen to the Podcast: Today we speak with Bob Martin, a Senior Staff Engineer with Microchip. Bob is also known as ‘the Wizard of Make’, and today he’ll discuss his AltiumLive Keynote on October 11th in San Diego, where he’ll teach on how to go from prototype to production with Arduino Board, transitioning it into a production-ready board that you can manufacture. Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show...

Arguments Against Copper Ground Pours in PCB Design Recently on the SI-List, aka the SI Reflector, (see note at the end of this article) there’s been a spate of activity around the topic of copper ground pours and whether they are advantageous in a multilayer PCB implementation. There were arguments on both sides of the question. One person said a ground fill pour reduces EMI, another stated that it balances the copper and makes the board less...